believe, become the property of the Royal
Pinakothek, at Munich.

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The painters at Vienna have formed an Art-Union, which is succeeding in
its first exhibition, which is now open. Some well-known artists of
Germany have sent pictures. Foltz, of Munich, has a landscape with a
flock of sheep; Zimmerman a landscape with effect of sunlight; Huelner,
of Duesseldorf, a boy reading the Bible to his mother, Vienna. Koeckoeck,
of Holland, has two landscapes. The artists of Vienna have also not been
backward. Among the names of the exhibitors we notice that of
Waldmueller, who is known in this country for his picture of the Children
leaving School, which was drawn a year since by one of the subscribers
to the International Art-Union, and was regarded as one of the chief
attractions of its collection.

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We hear from Berlin that KAULBACH has painted in miniature the Four
Evangelists, in a copy of Luther's translation of the New Testament,
which is destined for the World's Fair. The book is a folio; the leaves
are of vellum, and the printing is done in Gothic letters and in various
colored inks by four accomplished masters of calligraphy. These artists
have also ornamented their work with numerous vignettes. The book is now
being exhibited at the Royal Library in Berlin.

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MR. PRESCOTT, Mr. Ticknor, and other Boston gentlemen of high
cultivation and artistic taste, have prepared a memorial to Congress
that POWERS should be commissioned by government to put into marble his
statue of America. For less than twenty-five thousand dollars,
probably--for a sum not larger than that which was paid by the
government for the two specimens of commonplace by Mr. Persico, this
admirable production might be obtained in colossal size for the capitol.

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The GERMAN _Arch[=a]ologische Institut_, at Rome, celebrated the
birth-day of Winckelmann on the 13th of December. Dr. Emil Braun read an
essay on the two chief groups of the frieze of the Parthenon. These
groups have hitherto been supposed to represent the twelve gods of
Olympus; Dr. Braun attempted to show that they represent, in a double
point of view, the native heroes of Attica. The physical development of
the country is expressed in the genealogy of a royal race, beginning
with Cecrops and his wife Agraulia, continued in Cr